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Gladiolus in Georgia 



GLADIOLUS are among the easiest flowers 

 to grow; although they prefer a rich, loamy, 

 clay soil, they will thrive in any good garden soil. 

 Almost any color or combination of colors can be 

 had. The bulbs are cheap, too. Some successful 

 growers and specialists recommend planting from 

 five to six inches deep, but I usually plant about 

 four inches deep, and my experience has been that 

 sometimes the bulbs will rot if planted any deeper, 

 especially if the weather in the spring happens to 

 be cold and wet; the right depth all depends on 

 the soil — the lighter the deeper. 



The best flowers usually come from the earliest- 

 planted bulbs; therefore, it is important to get 

 the bulbs into the soil early, but not until all 

 danger of hard freezing is past. A light frost will 

 not usually do any harm. Select a sunny place 

 for the bed and make successive plantings every 

 three or four weeks until the first of August, to 

 keep up a succession of bloom. If the bulbs are 

 planted in rows, the rows should be from eighteen 

 inches to two feet apart and the bulbs from four to 

 eight inches apart in the rows. Keep the rows 

 free from weeds by frequent weeding, which is 

 about all the cultivation necessary. Remember 

 that it pa}-s to fertilize them liberally with rich, 

 well decayed manure mixed with the soil at least 

 ten inches deep. The earlier you get the manure 

 into the soil the better it will be, as it helps to 

 conserve the winter rains. At the same time it 



Gladiolus cannot be excelled as cut flowers, 

 last for over a week 



They 



thoroughly decays and becomes more available 

 as plant food, thereby producing more rapid growth 

 and earlier flowers. Here, in the South, it is not 

 necessary to move the bulbs to a new place even- 

 year, but. if it ever should be, it must not be done 

 until after the winter. In fact, if the soil is well 

 drained, the bulbs keep better over winter if left 

 right where they have been growing. 



New bulbs are formed on tops of the old ones, 

 and therefore each year they work up nearer the 

 surface of the soil. If you want them to grow in 

 the same bed for more than one year, plant the 

 bulbs deeper than four inches. To do this, mix 

 the manure with the soil to a depth of twelve to 

 fifteen inches, place the bulbs in the bottom of 

 trenches, that were made six to eight inches deep, 

 and cover with four inches of soil. After the 

 seedlings have grown above the level of the soil 

 fill in the trenches. 



In my own garden I have found America one of 

 the best varieties for general purposes. The 

 flowers are very large and of a beautiful lavender 

 pink. Other excellent varieties are Sulphur King, 

 a clear yellow; White Lady, white; Augusta, 

 white with a little blue; Columbia, orange scarlet; 

 Philadelphia, dark pink with white on the ends of 

 the petals; Attraction, dark crimson with white 

 throat; Cardinal, cardinal scarlet. 



When flowers are wanted for indoor decoration, 

 cut the spikes just as soon as the first two or three 

 buds have opened and place them in water in a 

 cool dark place. I have kept flowers in good 

 condition in water for over a week. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



